Three days later, Jester met with Hironobu Sakaguchi and Nobuo Uematsu, who had returned from Hokkaido.

Jester had never met the grandmaster who would later be worshipped by countless latecomers in the field of Japanese game soundtracks, and Nobuo Uematsu was now only twenty-six years old, at the beginning of the golden age of a composer, who, like Hironobu Sakaguchi, wore a small mustache under his nose, a pair of round-rimmed glasses, and his hair parted in the middle.

However, it seems that these artists are a little unkempt, and Jester can see that Nobuo Uematsu is wearing a somewhat wrinkled jacket and the beard on his cheeks is not shaved.

The two exchanged for a short time, Jester briefly told the other party about the general style of the game he was going to do, and Nobuo Uematsu only thought about it slightly, then nodded, saying that he would go back and make a few samples, and he would bring them tomorrow for Jester to listen to.

Then Nobuo Uematsu took his leave, and even Jester's offer to dinner was refused.

However, Hironobu Sakaguchi didn't leave, he still had to report to Jester for the past few days, but Jester was more interested in the relationship between Nobuo Uematsu and Hironobu Sakaguchi, and it stands to reason that they should not be able to go together anyway.

After hearing Jester's question, Hironobu Sakaguchi smiled embarrassedly.

"Actually, Nobuo Uematsu and I have been neighbors for many years."

Then, at Jester's request, Hironobu Sakaguchi began to talk about his acquaintance with Nobuo Uematsu.

"At that time, I was living alone in an apartment, and then a young foreign musician moved across the street from where I lived, and when we first met, he told me that he graduated from the Department of Physics at Kanagawa University, but when I saw that his room was full of all kinds of music equipment and equipment, I was a little strange that I needed so many music equipment to study physics."

"BOSS, I don't think you know, the physics department of Kanagawa University is a very good major, and generally students who graduate from here can work in some large companies or special research institutes, I originally thought that the neighbor named Nobuo Uematsu across from me was also like this, but when I came back from school and saw that he often only went out once a few days, I felt that his work did not seem to be what I thought."

Taking a sip and moistening his throat, Hironobu Sakaguchi continued.

"And usually when I'm at home, I can often come out of his room the sound of all kinds of Ding Dong Ding Dong musical instruments, all of which are some music that I haven't heard, which is very good, so I sometimes like to listen quietly when I'm a little bored, and then I know that this Kansai man doesn't have a fixed job, and he makes a living by providing music for music companies or TV stations, so they go back and forth, and they become friends."

"I really got in touch with him when I was making my second game......"

When he said this, Hironobu Sakaguchi frowned and thought for a while, and said in an ambiguous tone: "I can't remember clearly, I made a lot of games in that small company at the time, anyway, I wanted to make a more high-quality masterpiece at that time, and we developed the game together in the soundtrack, and my colleagues were not very satisfied with it a few times, and I thought that my neighbor was a musician, and I saw if I could ask him for help." ”

"Nobuo Uematsu didn't have much work at the time, and he was very new to composing music for games, so when he heard my intentions, he said yes - I thought it would take him at least a week, but he came to my house the next day to find me, and he was holding a tape of the music he had already recorded into his arrangement."

Speaking of this place, Hironobu Sakaguchi laughed unconsciously, as if he had thought of something funny.

"Speaking of which, I didn't know much about music, so I made a joke about it, when I saw Nobuo Uematsu come to deliver a good tune, so I asked him to play it to me, and I still remember very clearly, it was a tape with sixteen tracks, and after listening to it, I was disappointed, because the other party's music didn't match the style of play I told him before, so I had the intention of refusing at the time."

"But...... At that time, he probably saw what I meant, and he didn't care, but carefully asked me for my opinion on the tune, and I said it in detail, and after listening to it, he didn't say a word, took the tape and left, and I thought he was angry because I was dissatisfied with his tune. ”

Then Hironobu Sakaguchi's tone became self-deprecating.

"Actually, he came to my house again the next day, and this time I could tell he was very excited, and as soon as he came to my house, he couldn't wait to show me his new tape, and this time I was immediately attracted by the music in the tape, which was the most suitable soundtrack for the game I wanted to make."

"When I decided to use his tune on the spot, Uematsu laughed and laughed at me, in fact, he just rearranged the playback order of all the music he listened to yesterday, which made me very embarrassed, and I wanted to invite him to join this little game workshop I was in on the spot, at that time Uematsu was a little moved, but he still refused, according to him, he still has some work that needs to be repaid, and when his favor is over, he can agree to my request."

"Then, before I could get Uematsu, I left the previous game company, so this time when I heard you say that you need a soundtrack who can score a Western fantasy style game, my first impression came to Uematsu, and although I only had one or two encounters with him in games, I knew that he was a very, very good composer who could do what you need."

When he said this, Hironobu Sakaguchi became a little sad, and his eyes dimmed a little: "In the past few days, I also took the time to go to the place where I used to work, and by the way, I also met Mr. Masashi Miyamoto, he was very angry with my previous goodbye, and now his game development department is also closed, and the continuous failures have also hit him hard, and he was able to hold on when I was there, but after I left, the negotiation with FC to join the royalty plan was blocked, and he was also disheartened."

Overheard Hironobu Sakaguchi talk about the news, Jester also sighed in his heart, Square Enix, the game development giant that grew into a legend in the history he knows, finally disappeared in this world before it was officially established.

After letting Hironobu Sakaguchi out, Jester began to list the members of the RPG development team he was about to assemble.

When names emerged from his mind, he suddenly had a feeling that all the heroes of the world were in my possession, because every time he saw these names, Jester's mind would unconsciously emerge of the achievements that these people had made in his original memory, which were legends.

Jester couldn't help but think with some bad taste, if players in the future were studying the history of video game development and saw the development lineup of "Fire Emblem", would they be directly scared to pee their pants - the maker, Jester. Lee, curator Yasushi Matsuno, curator Hideo Kojima, curator Hironobu Sakaguchi, program Yuji, program Nash. Gibelley ......

Thinking of Nash. When Gabery, Jester was a little funny, the programmer known as the king of bugs, who liked to add some bug-like easter eggs to the games he designed, he had plans to recruit before, and when Jester recruited Hironobu Sakaguchi, he also had the idea of recruiting the second hero who made Final Fantasy a big success, but Jester only knew his name after Chinese translation and his identity as an Iranian-American, and knew nothing about him.

So, after asking someone to no avail, Jester gradually forgot about it.

But just a few days later, a phone call came from the U.S. headquarters, and it was a person named Nash. The news that a programmer from Gbedley has come to apply for a job.

Originally, it was impossible to call Jester directly to the news that a person had applied for the job.

But the HR of Mars Entertainment also knew that Jester had asked people to inquire about a programmer with a similar pronunciation, who was previously working on games on Apple computers and was Iranian-American, which was very consistent with the situation of the person who came to apply, and most importantly, his level was very, very high.

This has also been recognized by many programmers in the company.

That's why the HR director took the initiative to call Jester.

Able to recruit Nash. A programmer like Gibelley is very rare.

The first time Jester received a call from his HR, it was late at night in Japan, but after hearing the news, he was still a little sleepy and immediately woke up as if he had been poured a bucket of ice water on his head.

For example, there is a planning and design system that is completely achievable in hardware, but it may take 20 hardware resources for an average programmer to occupy, and a top programmer only needs 5 or even 1 resources to complete the same effect, so that the saved hardware resources can be added to other systems.

Even, some of the required completed effects may have reached the limit of the current hardware, and if you ask the average programmer to program this effect, he will only tell you, this is completely impossible, it can't be done at all, but a top programmer will tell you after researching, it is not impossible to complete it, but the hardware resources occupied will be very strict, it is better to cut this effect by two, and it is easy to do so.

Not to mention, when some groundbreaking engines are needed, you can only rely on the spur of the head programmer. R1152